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by juhanima 5mo ago
There seems to be quite a lot of stuff here [1] Seems legit to me. The oldest news item is from 2021. The domain name is new, but there seems to have been some rebranding lately. The product used to be called Pocket RentalOS and even that s
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by juhanima 2y ago
It might be interesting also to consider why people with less money tend to be generous by nature and wave off small debts on account of a culture of mutual support. Bret Deveraux in the series about farming[1] has the insight that ancient
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by juhanima 3y ago
I suppose there is a concept of sentience from outside and a different concept from internal sentience. The movie "Johny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo discusses a situation where a badly injured soldier in WW1 is considered brain
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by juhanima 3y ago
And of course "temperature" is just an euphemism for the artificial randomness that is mixed in to make the output appear more magical.
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by juhanima 3y ago
I would argue that total anterograde amnesia would be a serious challenge for sentience, yes.
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by juhanima 3y ago
ChatGPT works by cumulating the prompt. You didn't ask the same question three times. In stead you asked question q, then qq and finally qqq. Those are three different questions, which explains why you got different answers. I'm n
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by juhanima 3y ago
The only reason why output from a generative LLM appears intelligent or sentient is that it parrots a random sampling of texts written by intelligent and sentient people. In order to play the game of go effectively one needs to have a model
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by juhanima 3y ago
To only give up that position to functional programming?
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by juhanima 3y ago
Actually PostScript did last , I was just too stupid to realize that one needs to press <enter> for every new page in gv . Anyway: here is the pdf made by ps2pdf: https://juhani.xn--mkel-load.net/public/oodbif.p
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by juhanima 3y ago
Totally agree and thank you for being so perceptive! It was swell to hear someone say aloud "academic culture of sharing and providing for public good". I think that's what humankind would be wise to aim and seek for: equalit
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by juhanima 3y ago
Wouldn't claim so - perhaps the ideas were floating in the air. What I know for sure is that my work wasn't used for much. What's more alarming is that it seems those 32 years old files at ftp.funet.fi are mostly unreadable b
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by juhanima 3y ago
32 years ago I had just finished my "erikoistyö" (a pregrad exercise) in CS at the Helsinki Uni about combining object-oriented programming with relational databases and uploaded it to nic.funet.fi for all to see and enjoy - I was
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by juhanima 3y ago
The article is not quite clear why the contractor had to split the intangible goods cost to the tangible ones, but it does give a hint. Federal accounting is meant to prevent possibly corrupted overspending and that's why charging for
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by juhanima 4y ago
Gadolin was Finnish by the same logic Benjamin Franklin was American. Or would you consider him an Englishman? He was born in the British colony, after all.
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by juhanima 4y ago
But he was Finnish
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by juhanima 4y ago
Well. If you treat adults like children, they will start behaving like children. If you treat them like adults, they will be more responsible. Or then they will rob you blind. Your mileage may vary and is very much dependent on other things
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by juhanima 4y ago
Maybe no manager or director at all? Sometimes things happen in an organization in a self-organizing manner. Like people finding out who is able to help them with their problems and the word getting around. It is actually my experience that
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by juhanima 4y ago
It seems to me like a law of nature that every managerial function seeks to increase its influence and headcount by definition. Without a constant and vigilant effort to keep this tendency in check, every managerial organization will keep g
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by juhanima 4y ago
I totally agree with you that providing healthy and affordable meals for the students is a very good idea. So let me tell you how that was and is organized in my alma mater, the Helsinki University. Both student meals and healthcare are man
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by juhanima 4y ago
The way she goes about it, using power tools without goggles and gloves is just horrifying. It's a lovely concept, showing what can be done with the materials and tools available. But I wouldn't recommend such a cavalier approach
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by juhanima 4y ago
"Prioritätsstreit" is just a german word for a priority dispute, i.e. the question who was the first to come up with calculus, not something to indicate that this would be a priority to the German volk. If my memory serves me righ
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by juhanima 4y ago
What bothers me in this story is that it makes it sound as if it's easy to spot from the whatsapp chat who cheated. That doesn't make sense to me. Surely the students who cheated the worst were the ones who used the shared answers
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by juhanima 4y ago
Tossing a coin?
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by juhanima 5y ago
Is it really that easy just to overwrite the secure boot key database? I set up recently secure boot on a Lenovo laptop according to these instructions https://nwildner.com/posts/2020-07-04-secure-your-boot-proce... ..
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by juhanima 5y ago
Yes, definitely worth checking out. The ship was preserved very well in the oxygen-depleted waters of the Baltic and is almost in a pristine condition. This is very off-topic, but I cannot resist mentioning that when the ship was recovered
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by juhanima 6y ago
While Gustavus was a brave soldier, he was known to be a bit foolhardy. Besided getting himself killed in the battle of Lützen 1632, the story of the Vasa ship may have been what Oxenstjärna had in mind. Against the advice of his engineers,
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by juhanima 6y ago
Perhaps this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Oxenstierna#Quotation Axel Oxenstjärna was the Lord High Chancellor of Sweden during king Gustavus Adolphus II, who fought in the 30-year war. Not exactly medieval,
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by juhanima 7y ago
Thank you, sir, for your honesty. While mother tongue is surely a big part of a person's identity, any language is also just a means to an end. Some linguistics suggest that entire peoples have switched languages in the past in just a
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by juhanima 7y ago
According to Wikipedia, in Finland a 1/3L beer bottle is recycled, washed and refilled the average of 33 times before it goes out of circulation. https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palpa Although these days an aluminiu
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by juhanima 7y ago
Thanks for the link! I'm just watching the debate, and it seems both sides kind of got a point for a while. There they are, the sceptics, clowns or rational thinkers on the other side, who I root for instinctively, and the pompous stif

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